MPSC State Service 2020 · CSAT · Question 77 of 77

As the senior civil officer in-charge of some area, you are requested to be guest at the annual gathering of privately run old age home. While travelling to this place you came across many small settlements where tribal people were living in depleted shanties, though the area is full of natural resources like forests, rivers, springs and water ponds. When you inquired, people told that all the resources were grabbed by developers of old age home, forcing them to settle in small areas. They also told you that since people running old age settlement and inmates of the home are from high cast and they prevent these people from using river water, having a bath in the river or do fishing, using forest produce etc. Your priority will be to:

Decision Making

1. Amake and execute a plan for empowering people in the area with the help of teachers of the colleges from the urban parts of the area who are interested in assisting their students in getting practical experiences related to the theories of humanities and sociology by procuring funds from corporates.Correct
2. Bcancel your visit to the gathering by expressing your distress about the situation, order the authorities of old age home to give these people their dues, and allow them to enjoy resources in the area.
3. CAttend the gathering, get correct information about the situation and convince the organizers and inmates to have some sympathy towards the real owners of the resources during your speech in a friendly manner.
4. Ddon՚t take any action as you believe that everyone has to live with one՚s fate. to 2